GCC 4.3.0 Status Report (2008-02-14)

[Richard Guenther]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 7:28 PM, Alexandre Pereira Nunes
<alexandre.nunes@gmail.com> wrote:
> Also regarding ARM, PR31849
>  (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31849
>  <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31849>) is a show stopper,
>  at least for some embedded bare metal targets, i.e. arm-elf and
>  arm-none-eabi.
>
>  Until size optimization at least matches gcc 4.2, gcc 4.3 will have very
>  limited audience there. I'm not aware of gcc internals in order to help
>  with a fix, but I'm available to help testing, should anyone requires that.

This is by no means a release-blocker for 4.3 - the arm community would have to
do something about this earlier.  Also relevant benchmarks (CSiBE) show an
overall improvement of 4.3 compared to 4.2.

Richard.